SF News Two California Men Charged In Phony PAC Robocall Scheme That Targeted Both Trump and Clinton Voters In 2016 Three men, two from California and one from Texas, were indicted by the federal government last week in an alleged $3.5 million fraud scheme in which they collected small donations via robocalls targeting American voters in 2016.
SF News Two Laptop Thieves Convicted In Oakland Killing Outside Montclair Starbucks A jury in Alameda County today returned guilty verdicts on charges of murder and manslaughter against two men accused in a New Year's Eve 2019 laptop robbery that ended in the robbery victim's death.
Business & Tech Feds Sue Uber Over 'Wait Time' Fees Which They Say Discriminate Against the Disabled The Department of Justice has filed suit against Uber over the company's practice of charging fees when drivers have to wait more than two minutes for a passenger to get in their vehicle.
SF News Winter COVID Surge Already Starting In California, But Bay Area Could Be Spared COVID cases and hospitalizations are ticking up in parts of California, and while there doesn't seem to be evidence of a winter surge starting in the Bay Area, there could be one taking shape around us.
SF News Humpday Headlines: You Can Now Buy Crabs Off Boats at Fisherman's Wharf Whenever Dungeness season begins you can now buy crabs right off of boats in San Francisco, Comcast still won't say what the root cause of Monday's outage was, and Atherton is still the nation's most expensive zip code.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Union Square Loses Another Big Store DSW is closing on Powell Street, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen says the metaverse scares her, and SF Mayor London Breed has come out vocally in support of the recall of three school board members.
SF News Frank Somerville Speaks, Says He's Likely Out at KTVU Longtime KTVU anchor Frank Somerville, who's been off the air since being suspended by management in September over a disagreement about the coverage of the Gabby Petito case, is speaking out and telling the press that he doesn't expect he'll be back at the station.
Arts & Entertainment Uh Oh: Leonardo DiCaprio Reportedly Set to Play Jim Jones In Jonestown Flick Oscar-winner and meme star Leonardo DiCaprio is reportedly in final-stage talks to play evangelist cult leader Jim Jones — and with the families of Jonestown victims still alive all across the Bay Area, this could be cause for some fresh heartache and controversy.
SF News Bay Area Ponzi Schemer Accused In Multi-Billion-Dollar Fraud Gets Sentenced to 30 Years One half of a Martinez couple who pleaded guilty last year in what's been described as the "biggest criminal fraud scheme in the history of the Eastern District of California" has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.
Business & Tech Amazon Reveals More About Its Planned Potrero Warehouse on Former Recology Site Amazon had a virtual public meeting Monday to discuss its plans to build a three-story warehouse and delivery hub at 7th and Berry streets, at the edge of Potrero Hill and the Design District, across the tracks from the foot of Mission Creek.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Xfinity Outage Impacts Unknown Number of Customers A major Xfinity outage took out internet and TV for the Bay Area and beyond, there was a candlelight vigil in Oakland for the toddler shot on I-880, and the Grand Princess cruise ship just cruised back into SF Bay on Monday like nothing happened.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Three Charged In Contra Costa Co. Armed Robbery Spree Newsom's press secretary dispels rumor that he had a bad booster shot reaction, a man was shot while walking in Visitacion Valley, and three young men were charged in a series of 25 armed robberies across Contra Costa County.
SF News Heiress Ivy Getty Got Married at SF City Hall Saturday, With Nancy Pelosi Officiating, and a Reception at the Getty Manse There was a lavish to-do this past weekend — a whole weekend of parties, actually, that kicked off on Thursday — to mark the nuptials of 26-year-old Getty heiress and model Ivy Getty.
SF Politics What 'Family' Issue Kept Gavin Newsom From Attending Climate Conference? Governor Gavin Newsom and his wife abruptly canceled a planned trip to the U.N. climate conference, COP26, and he's been out of the public eye for about 10 days now with little explanation
SF News Unvaccinated SFPD Officer Dies of COVID at Age 46 A San Francisco police officer who had been on the force 17 years died over the weekend, less than a week after testing positive for COVID-19.
SF News San Francisco and San Mateo Counties Back In CDC's Yellow Tier for COVID Transmission If you're getting a little confused and dizzy by the back-and-forth with the CDC's color tiers and the COVID status of Bay Area counties, you're not alone. But rest assured that while cases seem to be leveling off, transmission of the virus remains fairly low in San Francisco.
SF News Still No Suspects In Random Oakland Freeway Shooting That Killed Toddler; City Marks Three New Killings Police still don't have any suspects to tie to a stray bullet that struck and killed a two-year-old child inside a car on I-880 in Oakland on Saturday, and there were three fatal shootings in a 24-hour period in the city between Friday and Saturday.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: No One Injured In Fourth Haight Shooting Another shooting occurred in the Upper Haight Saturday as a residential burglary got interrupted, Rep. Jackie Speier was commemorating COVID victims in San Mateo County on Sunday, and the international travel ban to the U.S. gets lifted today.
SF News Highway 37 In Sonoma County Shut Down Following Injury Accident Involving Two Big Rigs The often trafficky Highway 37, which connects northern Marin County and Sonoma County to Napa and Vallejo, was shut down in both directions Friday after following a major injury crash involving two big rigs.
Arts & Entertainment 'My Fair Lady' Brings Fresh But Old-School Broadway Vigor to the Orpheum The latest touring production of 'My Fair Lady' opened Wednesday at the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco — the first new show to play there in almost three years following 'Hamilton's extended residency.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Influential Oakland Restaurant Oliveto Plans New Year's Closing After 35 Years Oliveto, one of the most lauded and influential Italian restaurants in the United States — and one credited with extending Chez Panisse's local-and-sustainable ethos to Italian cuisine — has announced it will close at the end of the year, after 35 years in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood.
SF News San Francisco Police Sergeant Arrested For Robbery In San Mateo Rite Aid Incident An SFPD sergeant with 28 years on the force was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of robbery in an odd incident at a San Mateo Rite Aid that appears to have involved stealing painkillers.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Nobody Protested Chappelle at Chase Center We expected to see some protest for Dave Chappelle's arrival in SF but there was none, the latest U.S. jobs report is quite sunny, and Pfizer says that it now also has a highly effective antiviral pill for COVID.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Buster Posey Says Farewell, For Real The SF Board of Ed got Zoom-bombed again last night racial epithets and more, the Oceanwide Center property downtown was seized by creditors as collateral, and Buster Posey explains his decision to retire.
SF News [Updated] Another Shooting In the Haight Kills One Person, Injures a Second There was another outburst of violence in the Upper Haight Thursday afternoon with the second shooting in two weeks, and this time at least two people were shot and injured.
